Forcing a running sshd to reload its sshd config file Edit

Created 8/5/2015, updated 3/12/2020

Find the process ID for the master sshd process and send it a HUP signal.

$ ps auxwww|grep sshd
$ sudo kill -HUP 1234

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Forcing a running sshd to reload its sshd config fileEdit

Forcing a running sshd to reload its sshd config file Edit